Sebastian Borger

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

Photo of the entrance to the Eurostar terminal in Gare du Midi. There are glass windows with decals showing Big Ben, the London Underground and a royal guard. The foreground is a grey tiled floor.

Good morning from Gare du Midi in Brussels!

I'm railing and sailing to Dublin today and thought I would bring you along with me.

The journey will be 1) the Eurostar to London 2) a train to Holyhead with a change in Chester and 3) a ferry to Dublin.

Crossing my fingers it goes smoothly🤞🏻

Großbritanniens Demokratie: Auch in England gewinnen die Extremen an Zulauf Die britische Demokratie ist uralt. Sie gilt als sagenhaft stabil und immun gegen irrationale Emotionen. Damit ist es nun vorbei.

Die deutsche Blick auf Grossbritannien ist von jeher durch Mythen, Kitsch und Sentimentalitäten verstellt. Auch deshalb weil die Engländer sich gerne selbst so sehen.
Die Realität sieht ein wenig anders aus.
Ein sehr kluges Stück von Eva Ladipo. @faznet.bsky.social

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

"Despite serious threats against her life, she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions. When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist."

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

Árvore florida de flores amarelas

Coisa mais linda 🥰

How UK could leave ECHR Withdrawal would allow EU to end criminal law enforcement co-operation

Lord Wolfson's legal advice to Kemi Badenoch on ECHR withdrawal has now been published. In this thread I'll highlight a few passages that stood out for me - not meant to be a full analysis (in [] are the paragraph numbers). /1

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If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

On October 7th we remember the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel. Sharone Lifschitz writes in @theguardian.com how her mother, a peace activist, was kidnapped from kibbutz Nir Oz to Gaza and shook hands with her captors when she was released. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hold on a second. Those startling numbers on the proportion of global data traffic passing through Irish waters aren’t exactly backed up by the source they are quoted from.

There's a fascinating case study to be done on the different strategies of Macron and Sánchez. Both emerged, against the odds, from centrist milieux in the mid-2010s to lead their countries since 2017/18. But their fates are totally different.

Das BSW verließ den Plenarsaal als Zelensky vor dem Bundestag sprach und lädt in Potsdam den russischen Botschafter ein.

Und man muss ihnen für diese Klarheit in der Haltung dankbar sein

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

She was 15 — Anastasiia Hrytsiv. Killed by a Russian missile in Lviv overnight, along with her entire family.

They died together, in their own home — torn apart in seconds.

Just another Ukrainian family wiped out by Putin’s war.

Source: Kyiv Post

Wargame Day: Is the UK ready for a real Russian attack? <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sky-news-daily/id951048357' target='_blank'>👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈</a>

'The Wargame' played out how Russia could coerce the UK - and what Britain could (or could not) do about it.

That was recorded in April. Six months later, this catch-up asks whether the current UK government is acting with sufficient urgency to make people any safer.

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Hab n Ikea Schreibtisch über Kleinanzeigen weggegeben.
Die Person (gerade von zuhause ausgezogen) ist mit dem Fahrrad gekommen. „Weil man wegen des Marathons ja nirgends Parkplätze findet.“
„Ok, und wie willst du den Schreibtisch transportieren?“
„Oh..“

Ich lach nicht, hätte meiner sein können.

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia | Mzia Amaglobeli My fellow journalists are putting their lives in danger every day, but we refuse to surrender to a regime that threatens Europe’s own security, says imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli

If you read only one thing today, read this letter written from prison, where she has been languishing for several months, by the awesome Georgian journalist Mzia Amaghobeli.
She dared to speak the truth to the Moscow's puppets.
EU leaders don't have her courage.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mbangula grinst in die Kamera.

Dank Mbangulas Frühstart: Werder holt ersten Heimdreier 🤝

Alles in Ruhe nachlesen im Spielbericht 👉 svw.de/spielbericht...

#Werder | #SVWFCSP

I struggle with the categorisation of the potty-mouthed Russian commentary on these videos as “mature language”.

Manche Italien-Korrespondenten beschäftigen sich in epischer Breite mit der Frage der Rechtmäßigkeit der italienischen Gaza-Demonstrationen (sie gehört dazu, am Rande). @luzibernet.bsky.social (NZZ) hingegen ist wie immer gut informiert, sieht die politische Dimension und macht sich selbst ein Bild.

YouTube video by WION French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

Punkten im Namen der Opfer - nach dem Mordanschlag von Manchester - fm4.ORF.at Zum britischen Antisemitismus und den Versuchen der politischen Instrumentalisierung eines mörderischen Anschlags.

I wrote this for @fm4.orf.at about the dreadful attack on a Manchester synagogue and the way it is being instrumentalised over the victims’ dead bodies.

fm4.orf.at/stories/3050...

Grenades dropped by Israel Defense Forces near Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon No injuries reported to Irish personnel after incident in which Israel Defense Forces dropped explosives

Grenades dropped by Israel Defense Forces near Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon

Nigel Farage accuses Keir Starmer of "emboldening" anti-semites.

This Nigel Farage

We are woefully unprepared to counter people flying drones with malicious intent | Ulrike Franke Gatwick was not the first airport to be disrupted and the incident shows how difficult it is to fight back

2025?
No, 2018

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes there are some technical challenges, but we absolutely can do more to defend against drones over critical infrastructure and part of the reason why we haven’t in the past was that it simply wasn’t seen as a major threat.
Some comments for WELTTV.

Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It’s Under Russian Attack Russia’s drone incursions have made European societies aware they are being targeted, which is the first step to responding appropriately.

My latest WPR column

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-russi...

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

Kemi Badenoch mistakenly says NI voted in favour of Brexit In a BBC NI interview, the Tory leader said the

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...